I’ve started something new two weeks ago. I’ve decided every Tuesday I will install and try out a new distribution for the week. This experience will be used to create distro reviews for my weekly (on Wednesday) Linuxkasts. Yes, I will have the first episode up sometime later today.

This weeks choice is OpenSolaris 2008.11. I installed it yesterday without much trouble, though far to many licence’s to read. This is my first experience with OpenSolaris, and I am intrigued by what I’ve seen so far, but, Sun makes it clear they have a different definition of the word open. With only a day in the seat, it’s to early to make any conclusions about the “open-ness” of OpenSolaris, however, all these EULA’s are cause for concern and if I see to many more of them I am likely not finish out the week.
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Forgive the mess as I make a few changes to the look of the site. I’m doing it all myself and learning in the process, so if it’s slow going you’ll understand why.

Testing of Fedora 10 Final is currently under way and going well. I would of liked to test myself but am in the middle a transition here at GHQ and have no box to do testing on. I wish them good luck and hope they don’t find any deal breakers during the testing.

Testing of Fedora 10 Final is currently under way and going well. I would of liked to test myself but am in the middle a transition here at GHQ and have no box to do testing on. I wish them good luck and hope they don’t find any deal breakers during the testing.

About three weeks ago after a lot of thought, I decided to join the Fedora Project. Since then it’s been a slow start, as I wasn’t sure where I might fit in the project. That changed at the beginning of this week when I applied for and was excepted to the Bug Triage Team.

I thought bug triage would be the best place to start, and so far the choice seems the right one. Everyone has been friendly and helpful, explaining the procedures, walking through an example. A promising if slow start.

I’ll be posting regularly about my experiences as a new Fedora Project community member and at bug triage.

After an update I see all of the Echo Icon Set has been removed from Fedora 10 (beta) as the default icon set. I assume this means we wont be seeing it them in final. I liked the icon set myself and am already missing it.

It wasn’t a good day to burn DVD’s. When I attempted to burn the Fedora 10 Beta iso with the OS burning software, I ran in errors. So I tried other software.

Trying K3B gave me this error-

Executing ‘builtin_dd if=/dev/fd/0 of=/dev/sr0 obs=32k seek=0′
/dev/sr0: “Current Write Speed” is 12.3x1352KBps.
1605632/1650008064 ( 0.1%) @0.0x, remaining 102:39 RBU 100.0% UBU 2.0%
1605632/1650008064 ( 0.1%) @0.0x, remaining 171:06 RBU 100.0% UBU 100.0%
the LUN appears to be stuck writing LBA=310h, keep retrying in 47ms
1605632/1650008064 ( 0.1%) @0.0x, remaining 222:26 RBU 100.0% UBU 100.0%
:-[ WRITE@LBA=310h failed with SK=3h/ASC=73h/ACQ=03h]: Input/output error
write failed: Input/output error
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Fedora Updates are finally up again. Jesse Keating posted earlier today that updates would be working again today, and I could almost hear in his voice, “Guys, this time I really mean it!”.

According to Jesse Keating, a Release Engineer for Fedora Project, Fedora Updates should resume sometime today. You can read the full message here, or on the fedora-announce-list.This is great news and good work by the Fedora team. I would imagine the servers will be a little slow today once everything is up and on-line.

Again, great work Fedora team.

Per J. Keating on fedora-announce-list, Fedora 10 will be further delayed. The new release date is now set at 25 November.

This wasn’t unexpected given the infrastructure problem of the past few weeks. The infrastructure problem created huge impact on development of Fedora 9, bringing work to a halt for at least a month, as shown in the lack of updates (security and regular) since the update servers returned to service. This announcement shows the infrastructure problem is having a major impact on Fedora 10 as well. To what extent only time will tell.